Synagogue (rachtig)

Rachtig synagogue
place	Great
Architectural style	Quarry stone construction
Construction year	around 1910
demolition	1950s
Coordinates	49 ° 57 '37.5 "  N , 7 ° 0' 6.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '37.5 "  N , 7 ° 0' 6.1"  E

The synagogue in Rachtig was built around 1910 at Bahnhofstrasse 20. The synagogue was devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 . A short time later the synagogue was sold to a private person and converted into a warehouse. In the 1950s, the building was demolished and a residential building was built on the property.

synagogue

In 1850 a separate prayer room is mentioned in Rachtig. Until then, the members of the Jewish community had visited the synagogue in Zeltingen . Ten years later, the Jewish community, which had meanwhile become an independent religious community, came up with the plan to build its own synagogue. In 1862 the authorities approved a collection because the community could not afford the construction costs on its own. However, the synagogue was only built around 1910 at Bahnhofstrasse 20. From 1920, after the religious communities Rachtig and Zeltingen had merged again into one religious community, services were held alternately in the Rachtig synagogue and the Zeltingen synagogue. The synagogue was a two-story quarry stone building, on the upper floor of which there was presumably an apartment and the classroom. The windows upstairs were simple rectangular windows. There were arched windows on the ground floor. The east wall formed a three-sided apse in each of the side walls a round arched window and a round window in the closing wall. During the November pogroms in 1938, the synagogue was devastated by members of the SA . The attempt to set the synagogue on fire failed, however. A short time later the building was sold to a private person and converted into a warehouse. In the 1950s, the former synagogue was demolished and a residential building was built on the property.

Rachtig Jewish community

Until 1853, the Jewish communities of the communities Rachtig, Zeltingen and Lösnich formed a religious community. From this point on, the Jewish community in Rachtig had the status of an independent religious community. In 1920 the two religious communities Rachtig and Zeltingen reunited to form one religious community, as the number of Jewish community members in both places had declined sharply. The community had a religious school. At times, a separate religion teacher was employed, who also performed the duties of prayer leader and shochet . The deceased were buried in the old Jewish cemetery in Zeltingen until around 1876 . From 1876 onwards in the newly created Jewish cemetery in Zeltingen. From 1933, after the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , the Jewish inhabitants were increasingly disenfranchised. In addition, there were repeated anti-Jewish actions that culminated in the November pogroms in 1938. As a result, all Jewish families left the community by 1939.

Development of the Jewish population

year	Jews	Jewish families	comment
1808	17th
1833	44
1843	46
1924	39
1933	31

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; jewische-gemeinden.de

The memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem list 14 members of the Jewish community Rachtig (who were born there or lived there temporarily) who were during the time of National Socialism were murdered.

literature

• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany , 2). Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , p. 413.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rachtig . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Zeltingen-Rachtig / Mosel (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
3. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
4. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved June 8, 2020.